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VOLUME 9; Number 12
Gray Confesses
Slaying Snyder
Editor Was Clubbed, Chloroform
ed and Strangled to Death. ,
WOMAN ALSO CONFESSES
Old Story of Eternal Triangle is
Related to Police.
New York, March, 24.— Henry
Judd Gray, 34, confessed today that
love led him and Mrs. Ruth Snyder,
32 to kill her husband Albery Sny
der, 45, art editor of Motor Boating,
who was clubbed chloroformed and
strangled in Queens Village early
Sunday.
Gray in his confessioo statea that
the murder was agreed to when a
woman threatened "to reveal their
relations to Mrs. Gray unless Snyder
was disposed of.
Breaks Down
Mrs. Snyder made the confession
yesterday that led to Gray’s con
fession today. Sae broke down un
der 14 nours of grilling and related
to police tee sordid details of the
eternal triangle that had the final
outcome of death.
It was the “old story” said the
police, “the eternal triangle,” of a
young woman linked in marriage to
a jnan her senior and a plot for
“freedom” with the “other man” re
sulting in a crime of premediated
brutality, described by the police as
unparalled here in years.
The confessed slayer was taken at
Syracuse Monday and denied any
connection with the affair at the
time except that he had been inti
mate with Mrs. Snyder. He at
first claimed that he had been in
Syracuse and could prove that he was
there at the time of the slaying.
Replete With Details
The confession of Mrs. Snyder
was replete with lurid details.
It completely swept away her
first hysterical, fantastical outburst
that she had been seized, bound and
gagged by “a giant of a man” while
another beat to death her husband.
The alleged confession told of
the return of the Snyder family to
their modest home in Queens vil
lage— the husband and his wife and
their nine year old daughter, Lor
raine, from a bridge whist game at
a neighbor’s home, after midnight
Sunday.
Mr. Snyder, who had had “quite
a lot to drink” wanted to go to bed,
she is alleged to have said, and she
helped him undress. Deal' in one ear,
she placed him on the bed with his
“deaf ear up” and then, the police
say, she let Gray into the house.
In the next room, the two had
a few drinks, the statement said, and
after Gray is alleged to have said,
“I can’t live without you,” the mur
der was planned.
Gray: is alleged to have struck hie
sleeping man with an iron instru
ment, which the police believe was
the iron pinchbar found, together
with rubber groves, in Grays grip in
Syracuse.
Snyder’s feet were tied tgether
with a necktie, his hands bound with
picture wire, and his throat gashed
with a twisted loop of the same
material. In addition traces of an
anaesthetic were found in his organs.
SLAYS KIN, AND TAKES
OWN LIFE, SAID
Talbotton, Ga., March 24.—J. A.
Battle, 48, prominent business man
and Ford dealer, was shot through
the heart and instantly killed at
1* o’clock Tuesday morning at his
home here by his brother-in-law, H.
D. Smith, 45, who occupied a room in
his home. Smith then went into his
room and blew his brains out with a
shotgun.
Mr. Battle had Just returned to
Talbotton from Atlanta, where he
attended a banquet. He was accom
panied to Atlanta by his wife, who
stopped over while her husband
drove to the home.
On reaching the home, Battle vent
into the house and Smith immediate
ly fired the bullet from a pistol
through the latter’s heart.
No reason could be assigned for
the double tragedy, since no serious
bad feeling was known to exist be
tween the two men.
Mrs. Battle, sister of the slayer
suicide, was prostrated with grief.
The duty on onions and garlic is
to be revised, but the odor isn’t.
THE BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE
Expect Arrest
Macon Slayer
Hogan Murderers Fled North From
City in Several Cars.
TRAIL IS FOLLOWED
Indications That They Will Be
Brought to Bay Soon.
Macon, Ga., Mar., 24. —The mys
terious man, dressed in khaki, des
cribed as the slayer of E. B. Hogan,
with two companions, fled towards
the north In a fleet of stolen automo
miles, thereby leaving a plain mark
ed trail which the deputies are now
following.
Indications are that the trio will
be brought to .bay within a few hours.
Macon, March 24. —A fourth auto
mobile, reported stolen from W. E.
Dix, lineman for the Southern Bell
Telephone Company at Juliette, Ga.,
Thursday night, put Bibb county
deputies on a hot trail tonight in the
hunt for the murderers of E. B.
Hogan, Macon broker who was shot
to death on a country road last Wed
nesday night.
The new lead, deputies said to
night, is the best clue that has been
given during the course of their in
vestigation. It has been definitely
ascertained through descriptions
given by three different parties, that
the murder suspects left Juliette in
a coupe between 10:30 o’clock and
11 o’clock Thursday night, after
they had spent all of a night and
most of the day Thursday in the
woods near Dames’ ferry. The last
stolen car, and the car in which the
murderers are believed to have made
their getaway bore a Georgia license
tag number 142-310 and a motor
number 9,235,737.
GEORGIA NEGRO ADMITS
KILLING NINE PERSONS;
IS HELD IN NEW JERSEY
Augusta, Gt., March 24. —John
Clarke, negro, who was convicted
from Richmond county in 1906 for
killing three other negroes and who
is said to have confessed to killing
nine persons, is bsing held at
Newark, N. J., for the authorities of
this county, according to a letter re
ceived today by Sheriff J. T. Plun
kett from the Essex county officials
in New Jersey.
Sheriff Plunkett said he would not
send for the negro but would notify
the Georgia prison authorities at Mil
ledgeville.
After Clarke killed three negroes
in one night here in 1906, according
to the sheriff’s records, he was given
a life sentence and sent to the Mor
gan county chaingang. There he is
alleged to have killed a fellow con
vict. Tried for that crime he was
adjudged insane and sent to the state
asylum. Later, upon being pro
nounced sane, he was released from
the asylum and returned to this
county. The sheriff again arrested
him and returned him to the state
farm, which place he escaped about
10 years ago.
In 1924 Clarke, the records reveal,
was arrested in New Jersey for kill
ing his wife. Tried for that crime
there he was adjudged insane. Now,
according to advices received by the
sheriff here, he has been again judg
ed sane, and the Newark authorities
aye ready to return him to Richmond
county.
The letter from New Jersey to the
sheriff here said that Clarke had con
fessed to killing nine persons, but
gave no details of the alleged kill
ings.
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THREE ARE KILLED BY SLATE
FALLING DOWN MINE SHAFT
Harlan, Ky., March 24.—Three
miners were killed today by a fall of
slate ^n a shaft where they were
working at Twfla.
The dead are: Will Gross, Lewis
Rednoris and "Babe” Day.
They were doing shift work in the
Greech Coal company mines in Har
lan county when they lost their lives.
They were placing pillars in the shaft
when slate overhead broke loose and
crashed down on them. Their bodies
were recovered by miners working in
an adjoining shaft.
A senator declares that short ses
sions of Congress involve an enor
mous waste of public money. But
what of the long ones*
NAHUNTA, BRANTLEY COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 24th, 1927.
Court Fails To
Reach Floggers
Heavy Docket Prevents Trial of
Five Men Until Later.
TO PLEAD NOT GUILTY
Counsel Claims Defendan’s Had No
Connection With Case.
Lyons, Ga., March 24.—The
Toombs ounty superior court, faced
with a heavy docket, failed to reach
the trial of the five men charged
with flogging and it is possible that
the case will be called late this after
noon. The five men are Mack New,
J. L. Edenfield, Hugh Taylor, Tom
Taylor and Willie McDilda, who were
indicted on various charges in the
connection with the whipping of Rev.
J. T. Jc.L-o, near here last year.
Their co insel has announced that a
plea of not guilty will be entered and
that they have strong evidence to
show that the defendants had no con
nection with the case.
New is a merchant and the other
four are members of prominent
families in the country.
The-minister was taken from the
South Baptist church, seven miles
from here, and carried to a lonely
spot on a little traveled road and
whipped. He is a resident of Ap
pling county and was visiting the
church in Toombs county when two
masked men entered and esdorted
him outside.
Solicitor General A. S. Bradley
spent the afternoon before the re
convened special session of the grand
jury.
Judge R. R. Hardman did not de
liver a charge to the grand jury
Monday as he had previously charged
that body it convened last month.
A special venire from which a
jury is to be drawn was called today.
The picturesque old courthouse,
situated on a high hill a«few blocks
from the business section of the
town, was crowded throughout Tues
day.-
BODY’S IDENTY RE-
MAINS MYSTERY, SAID
Harlan, Ky., March 24.—A move
is underway today to introduce a bill
in legislature for the compasating
Conley Dabney, mountaineer, who
was released from prison after serv
ing several months on a life sentence
for the murder of Mary Vickery.
The latter recently returned to her
home after two years of absence.
Frankfort, Ky., March 24.— A
Mystery still surrounds the identity
of the body of a woman which was
found in an abondoned mine and for
a time believed to be that of Mary
Vickery, 16, for who’s alleged death
Conley Dabney was sentenced to life
imprisonment.
Dabney w r as pardoned Tuesday
when Mary Vickery returned to her
home here Saturday and denied that
she knew the woman, a Marie Jack
son, 27, who caused Dabney’s con
victed man. At the trial Miss Jack
son testified that she had seen Dab
ney commit the murder but when the
woman was brought face to face with
Miss Vickery in the Harlan county
jail she could not identify her.
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Police today continued their ef
forts to determine why Miss Jack
son testified at the trial that she
saw the slaying but this morning
had failed to bring a confession
from her.
The Dabney-Vickery case in Har
lan county has almost a parallel in
Bell, an adjoining county.
James Eads of Windsor, Ontario,
Canada, disappeared a few days be
fore Christmas, 1925, at the time
he was known to have had a dif
ficulty with Dillard Wilson and Col
son Howard at Bronies creek, twenty
miles from here on the Harland road.
Later some bones were found be
hind a log near the house where the
fight occurred. "Wilson and Howard
were arrested and indicted on a
charge of murder.
While they were awaiting trial,
Eads returned to his home in Wind
sor. He told of having left Bell
county and gone to New Orleans,
where he shipped on a cattle boat
and went around the world. Coun
sel for Wilson said the bones were
"nothing but those of a horse.”
The murder indictments were dis
missed.
Read The Brantley Enterprise
Early Trial For
Slayer Os Two
Grand Jury Indict Man Held Here
For Brutal* Murder of Mrs. In
gram and Infant Son.
PRISONER DENIES KILLING PAIR
H. A. Hammond Reiterates Denial
That He Had Part in Slaying of
Mother and Tiny Tot.
Atlanta, Ga., March 22.—Indict
ments charging Harold A. Hammond
with the murder of Mrs. Lottie Bell
Ingram and her 14-months-old son,
Floyd, who were found dead in a
bed in the Ingram home on Ashby
street on the morning of February
4, were returned Tuesday by the
Fulton county grand jury.
There were two separate murder
indictments returned, the first charg
ing that he killed Mrs. Ingram by
beating her in the head with a.hlunt
instrument, unknown to the grand
jurors, and the second indictment
charged that he killed Floyd Ingram
by choking and strangling him.
Hammond was arrested Sunday
night, March 13, near the scene of
the murder by an Atlanta patrolman
on a municipal court warrant charg
ing murder, which was sworn out by
investigators for Solicitor General
John A. Boykin.
The defendant fled from the city
the night following the double slay
ing, according to police, and for sev
eral weks was a fugitive.
Several witnesses declared they
recognized Hammond’s voice during
a “voice test” conducted by city de
tectives following Hammond’s arrest,
asserting that the voice “sounded
liqe” the voice they heard on the
night of the murder inquiring as to
the direction of the Ingram home.
Emphatic denial of any connection
with the slayings has been made by
Hammond from his cell in the Ful
ton tower.
No date fir the trial has been set.
However, attaches in the solicitor’s
office stated that Hammond probably
would be placed on trial week after
next. x
The bodies of Mrs. Ingram and her
infant were found in the bed short
ly before 7 o’clock February 4 by
the slain woman's husband.
THE TOLL OF THE MOSQUITO
We are now on the eve of that
period of the year when the Anophe
line (malaria) mosquito begins to
take its toll.
The toll of the mosquito may be
regarded from three aspects; first,
the annoyance, suffering and death
caused by disease it transmits;
second, the economic loss resulting
from disease in expenditures for
medical aid, nursing and medicines
and loss of time and productive
energf; and .third, the economic loss
it occasions by retarding develop
ment of, and depressing property
values in sections where it abounds.
Apart from the annoyance and dis
comfort it causes it is solely respon
sible for malaria, yellow fever, and
dengue. Os these diseases malaria is
the most prevalent and serious in the
Southern States.
Sir Ronald Ross, discoverer of the
transmission of malaria by the mos
quito, says: “Malaria is onb of the
greatest scourges inflicted upon
humanity. It’s a menace to any
people of a country in which it has
a decided incidence. In the num
ber of deaths caused either directly
or indirectly the sickness and suf
fering, the loss of time and efficiency,
the expense, the lowered vitality of
those afflicted and in the reduction
of the valuation of property, malaria
is without a rival among the diseases
afflicting mankind.”
The late H. R. Carter, senior sur
geon, United States Public Heealth
Service, says: "The loss of effi
ciency caused by malaria in malar
ious sections is beyond comparison
greater than that caused by any other
disease, or even by any two or three
diseases combined including typhoid
fever and tuberculosis. You have
never heard of the prevalence of ty
phoid determining the failure to lo
cate industrial plants. set, at one
place where power was abundant and
very cheap, the manager told me that
a number of options for’cotton mills,
factories, etc.,- —options which had
been taken because of the cheapness
of power—had been abandoned be
cause of th^ prevalence of malaria.”
Will Celebrate
Bridge Opening
Georgia and Florida in Joint Pro
gram at Kingsland.
ON APRIL 1
Another Completed Link In Atlantic
Coastal Highway.
Brunswick, Ga., March 24. —Geor-
gia ans Florida will join in celebrat
ing the occasion of the formal open
ing of the St. Mary’s river bridge,
which will be held at Kingsland, Ga.,
on Friday, April 1.
This new structure connects with
a free bridge the states of Georgia
and Florida, and is one more com
pleted link in the Atlantic Coastal
Highway, removing the next to the
last toll bridge on this highwty.
The final toll bridge at Woodbine
over the Satilla river, will be made
free at a celebration about May 15
when the new bridge over the river
there will be completed.
Kingsland, just three miles north
of the St. Mary’s riverbridge, will
be host to the people of Georgia and
other points on the Coastal Highway
and is making arrangements for an
old-fashioned Georgia barbecue and
dinner.
The Governors of Georgia and
Florida, North and South Carolina,
United States Senators, Congress
men and state highway officials are
expected to be present at the formal
opening.
Realize Long Dream
It has been the dream of far
sighted men for years to have a
hard surfaced highway from the
Canadian border to the end of Flor
ida, Key West, passing through the
original thirteen states and touching
all the great eastern cities parallel
ing the Atlantic Coast, and this
dream and vision is now practically
realized, for within a few months the
great traveling public will be able to
drive from the north and east in their
automobiles a distance of 3,000
miles, through the most historic
parts of the United States.
GEORGIA EDUCATORS TO
ASSEMBLE, THEY SAY
Assembling of all of the educa
tional forces of the state, with out
standing educators, university and
college presidents, city, county and
state school heads attending, will
mark the convening of the annual
convention of the Georgia Education
Association at Macon, April 12-16,
according to announcement of plans
for the meeting given out in Atlanta
Saturday.^ It will be “Education
Week” in Georgia. Walter P. Jones,
superintendent of the Macon Public
Schools, is president.
The gathering of the delegates at
tending the convention annually is
regarded as the most outstanding
educational force to assemble at any
one time, and will bring together
for discussion of greater education
al expansion in the state, the men
who have the responsibility on their
shoulders of the educational trend
of the state.
District Leaders
First District, Superintendent T.
J. Lance, Waynesboro; Second Dis
trict, Superintendent J. L. Yaden,
Moultrie; Third District, Mrs. Helen
B. Gurr, Terrell County School su
perintendent; Fourth District, Prin
cipal W. E. Drane, Columbus: Fifth
District, Miss Maude Rhodes, princi
pal Whiteford School, Atlanta; Sixth
District, Superintendent R. I. Knox,'
Jackson; Seventh District, Superin
tendent R. G. Vinson, Summerville;
Eighth District, Superintendent J. I.
Allman, Hartwell; Ninth District,
Superintendent B. J. Cantrell, Tenth
Dirtrict, Principal L. F. Elrod, A. &
M. School, Granite Hill; Eleventh
District, Superintendent Everett
Knox, county schools, Brantley, and
Twelfth District, Superintendent W.
A. Stone, county schools, Wilcox.
The various officers and directors
of the association, and the visiting
educators will preside oyer the ses
sions.
Heron Is Killed By Windshield;
The Motorits Are Hurt, k Is Said
St. Petersburg. Fla., March 22.—
When a blue heton, a large wutsr
bird, struck the windshield of their
automobile, as it w;s making 35
miles an hour Mr and Mrs. Ernest
Tibbets received many cuts about the
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
How To Prevent
Worms In Tobacco
By J. M. PU®DOM
Agricultural and Industrial Agent of
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Company.
Cut worms often severely damage
young tobacco and make it difficult
to get a good stand in the field. The
cut worm is the larval form of the
beetle that is commonly known as
the June bug. It s a voracious feed
er and «if a considerable- number is
present in the field it is almost im
posible to get a good stand of to
bacco unless they are killed.
There sems to be a widespread be
lief that after the weather grows hot
and plowing or hoeing the crop is
begun that the cut worms will dis
appear and do no more damage. This
impression is wrong. As a matter
of fact the cut worms are larger and
more active, and do more damage
in the late spring and early summer
than in the early spring. The dam
age in the early spring can be quite
serious (I set eight hills of tobacco
in one of my fields on the Bth of
March and within one week two of
them had been cut down by cut
worms) but it is usually more serious
in the late spring, especially if the
weather is dry and the plants are
watered as they are set. I have
seen fields of young tobacco prac
tically destroyed by them.
Cut Worm Bait.
The most effective means of kill
ing cut worms is to poison them. This
is much more efficient and cheaper
than hunting and killing them by
hand. The poison mixture is known
as cut worm bait. It is prepared
by mixing bran ‘or shorts’ with Paris
green at the rate of 25 pounds bran
to 1 pound Paris green. This mix
ture should be dampened, using wa
ter that has been sweetened with
syrup, or just plain water is the syrup
is not available. Add sufficient wa
ter to dampen the bran thoroughly,
but not enough to make it sloppy.
The mixture should be of such a con
sistency that it will crumble freely.
Two finely chopped lemons or or
anges mixed with it will make jthe
bait more attractive to the cut
worms.
How and When to Put it Out.
A few small crumbs of the bait
should be dropped close beside each
hill of young tobacco. The sooner
this is done after the tobacco is set
in the field the more effective it
will be in preventing cut worm dam
age. To be most effective it should
be put out late in the afternoon,
and each day’s planting should he
protected with the bait the same day
it is set out in the field. It is rec
ommended by some that the bait
be put out on the row a day or two
previous to transplanting tobaccco.
This is especially advisable in the
late spring when cut worms are very
active. When this is done, if the
beds are boarded off just ahead of
transplanting, additional poison, if
possible, should be dropped by the
young hills in the afternoon of the
day they are set. If the tobaccc is
being planted behind oats, rye or
corn, or if for any reason it is sus
pected there is a considerable num
ber of cut worms in the field it will
be advisable to put out the poison
bait again a week or 10 days after
the plants have been set.
A great many do not realize the
seriousness of cut worm damage un
til it is too late. We should re
member now that a good, uniform
stand is almost essential for mak
ing a crop of good quality tobaecco,
and also that each hill of tobacco de
stroyed by a cut worm means the
eventual loss of one-eighth to one
quarter of a pound of tobacco. This
loss is easily preventable and pre
parations for transplanting are not
complete unless the plans include
preparations for killing the cut
worms also.
Henry Ford strongly oppeses capi
tal punishment, but still manufac
tures an instrument of mild torture.
face near here last night.
They were dr ving through fr'in
Miami and were running along a
clear stretch of road near a bayon.
The bird was flying in the opposite
direction from which the car was
traveling and was confused by-a
heavy fog.
The bird splintered the heavy glass
but was instantly killed.